The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has found that the number of children who have an autism disorder is significantly higher than had been previously thought, and could be as high as one out of every 150 children.

See: USA Today, Feb 9, 2007.

Why Don’t the Amish Have Autistic Children?

Based on report published Washington Times (April 18 & 19 2005).

For hundreds of years the Amish have lived isolated from American culture and scientific progress, therefore have had less exposure to some new factor triggering autism in the rest of population.

Based on national statistics, their should be  200 children with autism in the Amish community Pennsylvania Dutch country — instead, there are only three:

  • The first autistic Amish child was a girl who had been brought over from China, adopted by one family only to be given up after becoming overwhelmed by her autism, and then re-adopted by an Amish Mennonite family. (China, India and Indonesia are among countries moving fast to mass-vaccination programs.)
  • The second autistic Amish child definitely had received a vaccination and developed autism shortly thereafter.
  • The reporter was unable to determine the vaccination status of the third child.